Does loyalty lie with voters or elsewhere?

3:56 PM,
Dec. 13, 2013

Written by

Beth Jezek, Asheville

The American Legislative Exchange Council is a right-wing organization that lobbies state legislatures on behalf of corporations. Corporate members are given closed-door access to state legislator members to write model laws favoring big business and conservative causes. Lower taxes for corporations, voter ID, stand your ground laws, anti-immigration laws, marriage inequality laws and anti-environmental laws are largely due to ALEC. (http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed). Rep Tim Moffitt (R-116) is an ALEC Board Member ...